Biden Attends Mother-In-Law's Funeral

Biden Attends Mother-In-Law's Funeral

Share October 07, 2008 2:03 PM

ABC News' Matt Jaffe reports: Democratic vice-presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden, D-Dela., Tuesday attended the funeral of his late mother-in-law Bonny Jean Jacobs, who passed away Sunday at the age of 78 after a long illness.

Jacobs, from Willow Grove, Penn., is survived by her five daughters, including the senator's wife Jill.

Jacobs' husband Donald passed away in 1999.

The morning service at Abington Presbyterian Church near Philadelphia comes at the end of a trying post-debate stretch for the Delaware lawmaker. His mother-in-law's death Sunday came on the same day his son Beau began a year-long deployment to Iraq by departing for training in Texas.

On Wednesday, Biden will get back on the campaign trail traveling to Florida, where he will hold his first solo campaign rally in 12 days. His last solo rally was on September 26 in Cudahy, Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.

Since then, Biden has spent two days campaigning with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in North Carolina, Virginia, and Michigan, took four days to prepare for last Thursday's vice-presidential debate in St. Louis, attended Friday's deployment ceremony for Beau in Dover, and then cancelled four days of events in Washington DC, Virginia, New Hampshire, and Florida to remain with his family in Wilmington.

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